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General Sumner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ110221478 ↗
Source-derived summary

General Sumner may refer to:

Edwin Vose Sumner (1797–1863), Union Army major general

Edwin Vose Sumner Jr. (1835–1912), U.S. Army brevet brigadier general

Jethro Sumner (c. 1733–1785), North Carolina Militia brigadier general in the American Revolutionary War

Samuel S. Sumner (1842–1937), U.S. Army major general

William H. Sumner (1780–1861), Massachusetts Militia general

See also

Owen Summers Jr.

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This entry incorporates text from “General Sumner” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.